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Letters .Patent No. 80,787, dated August 4, 1868.

TO .ALL WHOM lI'I MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, FRIDRICH WAGNER, rof Danville, in th'e county of Monteur, and AState of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and improvedStop-Cock; and I do hereby declare-that `the following is a full,

clear, and exact description thereof, wl1ich will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same,

reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specication, in which- Figure 1 represents a plan or top view, partly in section, of my improved stop-cock.

Figure 2 is a detail horizontal section of the'same. f`

Figure 3 is a side View of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The object ofrthis invention is to so karrange a cock for conveying beer or other liquor from hogsheads or other large reservoirs into smaller barrels or vessels, that the said liquor may be kept constantly flowing after having been once started, the flow' not having to be interrupted aftereach barrel o r small vessel/has been {ille-d.

'For this purpose I have provided a Tshaped tube or faucet, in which two spigots are areanged, of which one isA arranged at the junction .of the arms of the tube, and is so arranged that it can conne-ct the shank or` main tubewith any one of the other two tubes. When, then,y the shank oi' the T-shaped tube is inserted in a cask or hogshead, and when one of the two other arms is connected .with a barrel or other vessel, and when, then, the spigot in the shank is opened, the beer will rush towards the arms. Now the spigot at thejunction of the arms lshould be so set that it connects the'shank with that arm which is connected, with the barrel, and not with the other arm. The beer will thus iiow from the cask into the barrel. While the one barrel is being` filled, another barrel can be connected with the other arm ofthe tube, and when one barrel is nearly lled, the spigot at thejunction need-only be turned to gradually disconnect the iilled barrel and to connect the empty barrel with the cask. Thus tho liquid can constantly'ow 'from -the cask, and will not have to be interrupted to conduct it into another barrel. i

As heretofore arranged, Vthe iiowing of the beer from the hogshead had to be frequently interrupted, and v thereby a reaction in thecask was occasioned, `which caused the sediments to rise and to mix with the beer, and stop the passage. By the-use of my invention the beer can be constantly keptclear.

- 4 ,in the drawing, represents a. T-shaped faucet, in which two spigots, B and C, are arranged, t`l1e former in the shank a of` the faucet, the latter at thepjunction ofthe sha-nk with the cross-tube b e. l

-The spigot C can be turned so as to conn-ect the shank a with either one or both of'the tubes, as shown in sg. 1. I

4 I Thecaskjinwhich the shank is fastenellcornmunicates through the tube c with a barrel, while the tube' b is being connected with a. barrel, so that when the first barrel is nearly illed, the spigot C can be slightly turned to leaveia small stream iiow through c, and another through b, and when the barrel is quite filled, e is quite disconnected, and anda are connected, as in iig. 2.

The liquid can thus be kept constantly running.

The plug` B is only used` to start, and, ii'rdesircd, to nally arrest the ilow of' the liquid.

Having described'my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

For the 'purpose specified, the arrangement, in a T-shaped tube, of a cock, B, in the main part of the tube,

.so constructed as to bo capable of shutting o the whole flow, and a deecting-cock, e, at the junction of theV `cross-tube with the main tube, so constructed that'by turning it at different angles, the fluid coming from the I main tube can be deected totally or partially intoy either arm of the cross-tube, without the possibility of arresting in any degree the ilow ofthe liquid through the main tube, the several parts of the apparatns being constructed and operating in the manner herein set for-th. v

. FRIDERICH WAGNER.

. Witnesses:

B. K. Rnonns, J. C.,Ruonns. 

